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Reading is the fastest way to travel the world from your comfort zone. It is often said that a reader lives a thousand lives before death.
This month, we have curated a list of books across genres to help you explore different world-views and travel the world right from where you are!
Thinking of books to read? Check out our recommendations below:
- Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear.
As the year draws to a close, it may be an excellent decision to start changing things you do not like about yourself.
In this self-help book, James Clear offers insightful tips on focusing on small habits that could lead to an overall change in behaviour. He uses proven ideas from biology, neuroscience, and psychology to generate practical ideas that help readers achieve remarkable results.
- Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter
If you struggle to balance work and keeping the family together, here is a good read. Anne-Marie shares her personal story of what she has realised on the subject matter of equality between sexes. She leaves her dream job as the first female policy director in the U.S. State Department to focus on her family. She picked up an academic career that gave her time to focus on parenting. She shares thoughtful and persuasive insights on how feminism is stalled and the action plans that can best bridge the equality gap between men and women regarding work and family.
If you intend to start a family—or you have one already—and also build a sustainable career, this would be a good read.
- Becoming Nigerian: A Guide by Elnathan John
How much of a Nigerian are you? How well do you want to know more about Nigerians as a non-Nigerian? This 145-page satire will give you exciting insights into what living and being a Nigerian is all about.
If you are looking for a piece to relax and have a good laugh, this relatable novel will give you all the chills you need. While the author tells hilarious inside jokes about politics, you also get a profound reflection on the mundane lives of Nigerians (the hardship, the fun, the hopes and many more). He ends each chapter with “May God bless your hustle,” a ‘Nigerian’ expression.
More interesting is the expression glossary at the back. Trust that to be a cheat sheet for Nigerian colloquialism.
- The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind by Jonah Berger
You need those game-changing marketing skills regardless of the discipline in which you may find yourself. If you are a startup business owner, a leader, or a marketer, you will find this book very helpful. The book highlights a different approach to building a successful business relationship. It outlines the barriers to poor marketing communications and gives key insights on how to improve them.
John Berger, a marketing professor, is known to be very interested in marketing and communications. He wrote this book to create a powerful way of thinking and strategy that will help win the hearts of consumers.
What are you waiting for?
- A Broken People’s Playlist by Chimeka Garricks
We love a book with a title that pops. Even more, the style in which it is written is refreshing. Who writes a book based on a song playlist? Chimeka Garricks. Received generous acclaim and reviews, this highly relatable experiment of a book riding on the precedent of 12 songs chronicles the love stories of everyday Nigerians. Their stories are tinged with a rueful “eeyah” emotional factor. If you intend cosying up with a smoothly written book, then this is for you.
- Of Dark Tides and Darkling Times by Chidiebube Onye Okohia
Of Dark Tides and Darkling Times is a modest-sized chapbook written by Pushcart Nominated Chidebube Onye Okohia. Beyond a doubt, the poet has a refined palate for words, making them dance while they sit still on the page. This book is a delightful offering of geometrically styled poetry. The creatures in the poems are extracted, defined and influenced by time. This chapbook tells the poet’s journey through multiple tongues. If you are a lover of poetry, then you should get this.
- Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare
“Everybody in the world is speaking differently. We all speak differently because we all have different growing-up lives, but we can all understand each other if we listen well.”
Oh yes, you read right. This is no typographical or grammatical oversight. Abi Dare wrote her book in this colloquial way, and that’s why we love it. It is a story of defiance as much as positive stubbornness, of the search for a voice as much as identity. The main character, Adunni, embarks on a hero’s journey to be heard. She believes there is more to life than being married off as a wife with no ambitions. Starting from her teenage years, she fights till her voice is heard.